Hello Eric,
you can not use scripts are running in an infinite loop.
The script must spawn or you wrapper script should do this.
> I have a (legacy) shell script that I need to call from monit. This shell
> script runs an infinite loop.
A good source are the scripts used with systemd or initd.
Unfortunalely, there is no general way to create an useful script, but
the script should not quit immediately. To start Jetty I use something
like the following, without any sleep.
case "$1" in
'start')
cd "${DIR}/jetty"
$PRG status
if [ $? -ne $ONLINE ]; then
# export TZ=Europe/Berlin
export TZ=MEZ-1MESZ,M3.5.0,M10.5.0
export PATH=${DIR}/Java/jre8/bin:$PATH
export JAVA_HOME=${DIR}/Java/jre8
# export JETTY_BASE=${DIR}/jetty
export JETTY_HOME=${DIR}/jetty
nohup java -jar $JETTY_HOME/start.jar >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 &
echo $! > $PIDFILE
fi
RC=0
;;
But for some scripts are spawning itself I use a sleep too for some
other not. The answer to your problem, it depends.
Sorry,
with regards,
Lutz
